It’s Christmas, and in this festive time it’s nice to hear of festive divorce stories. One such story involved a man who dressed as Santa and murdered several people at his ex-wife’s parents’ house.

They were having a Christmas Eve party, and he gatecrashed in a Santa outfit and proceeded to shoot the guests.

Bruce Pardo was unhappy at the way his divorce was settled with his wife, who he had been married to for under a year. He entered her parents’ house and started shooting people, before setting fire to the house. There were approximately eight deaths, including his ex-wife and her parents.

Pardo then shot himself after he had driven to his brother’s house.

Clive Bellmore